SAME OLD SAME OLD WEB20 Ho Ho ho.. Was: Re: [consulting] Levels of websites

[Dan Robinson]

> Andre,
> I would tend to agree with you - on a technical base. Web2.0 is Old
> hat - (adaptive path path here=
> http://adaptivepath.com/images/publications/essays/What_puts_the_2_in_Web_20.pdf)
>
>
> Web2.0 is very useful though, for educating clients, and turning new
> "tricks" into money for your consulting business.
> There's a lot of fuss about Web2.0, but I tended to ignore it - just
> because I was so used to these things from my work with Drupal for
> instance
>
> ---
> But the other day I had a wake up call!
> My boss (yes I have a boss at my daytime job, serving the almighty MS)
> and I were both at a meeting talking about the future of our
> integrated Micosoft Axapta Association Administration ERP modules
> (including the member self service and community building web modules
> that I architected), and he told us that he had seen the future. He
> had been to Amazon.com (apparently for the first time?) - and had
> experienced "the page you made" and "other people who bought this also
> bought...".
> Really - this is true. He had had a revelation then and there.
>
> I mean - I was speechless! I've worked with this guy for four years. I
> have tried to educate him on what the web is, what is possible, what
> web services are, how social networking on the web works, where are we
> going - etc etc. I have even shown him and others my Langemarks Cafe.
> All this time my own boss and my own collegues have nodded and said
> yes yes.
> And yet my boss NEVER UNDERSTOOD ANYTHING AT ALL!

time for a new job dude :)

>
> Small wonder that we have a hard time going in the right direction,
> making the right calls, and spending our resources wisely.
>
> ----
>
> Don't take for granted that people get it.
>
> Thus - Web2.0 can do wonders for you. Web2.0 is a spell, a buzzword,
> but it is also an opportunity to teach the wonders of the web yet
> another time - to all those people out there who do not really get it
> yet.
> And the good thing is: They don't have to feel embarrassed - because
> it's a whole new web!
> :-)
>
>
> Best
> Gunnar
>
> andre wrote:
>
>> At any rate - it certainly reaffirms my belief that web 2.0 is
>> poppycock.  There is nothing 2.0 about the web - same old same old.
>> (see my rant on this topic here:
>> http://www.andremolnar.com/what-is-web-2.0-the-web-is-the-web-there-is-nothing-2.0-about-it)
>>
>>
>> At any rate - regardless of my distaste for the term web 2.0 - Troy
>> does a fine job of describing the 'mental evolution'.
>
>
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